Necktie-fastener



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NEGKTIB FASTBNER.

No. 604,048. PatentedMay 17,1898.

BUCKLEY H. HOLMES, OF DULUTH, MINNESOTA.

NECKTIENFASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 604,048, dated May 17,1898?.

Application led August 13, 1896. Serial No. 602,689. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, BUCKLEY H. HOLMES, a citizen of the United States,residing at Duluth, in the county of St. Louis and State `of Minnesota,have invented certain new and useful Improvements inNecktie-Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention7 such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

My invention relates to improvements in necktie-fasteners; and theobjects of my invention are to produce a simple and cheaplyconstructeddevice or attachment of this class designed to be secured to anyordinary style of necktie and for connecting the same conveniently withthe collar-button and colla-r in such manner as to prevent anyaccident-al displacement of the tie and also to avoid the necessity ofemploying the usual pasteboard back and rubber loop or band.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear;and the invention consists in a fastener formed of a section of wireprovided at its upper end with either a permanent or temporary means ofattachment to the tie and for engaging over and grasping the shank of acollar-button and for engaging under the lower edge of a collar atopposite sides of the button.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a general rear view of a tiehaving my invention applied thereto in a temporary manner. Fig. 2 is adetail of the attachment. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 with aslightlymodified form of attachment. Fig. 4c is an edge view of thefastener.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of thedrawings.

In practicing myinvention I take a section of spring-wire of desirablegage and bend the same at opposite sides of its center, crossing theterminals and producing a triangular loop l, at the upper side of whichoccurs the straight bar 2. After crossing the terminals the same arecurved in a substantially semicircular manner to form the eye 3. Theterminals approach each other and preferably contact at the lower end ofthe eye 3 and then abruptly diverge, as at 4E, forming the convergingentrance 5 to the eye 3, that is readily capable of being distended byreason of the resiliency of the wire.

The terminals 4 not only diverge but are bent slightly to the rear outof the vertical plane with the loop and eye l and 3, and finally arestill further bent to the rear and upward, forming the roundedcollar-engaging hooks 6.

If preferred, the loop 2 may be sewed permanently to the back of thetie, such form of fastener being shown in Fig. 3; but, as shown in Figs.l and 2, the straight bar 2 occurring at the upper end of the loop l maybe loosely connected in a hingelike manner by means of a link 7 to theupper bar 8 of an ordinary safety-pin 9. y When stitched directly to thenecktie, the stitches pass over the bar 2, so that a hingelikeconnection is made between the tie and the fastener, such connectionbeing permanent. The same effect, however, is secured by employing thesafety-pin 9,-although the connection is temporary and enables thefastener to be removed from one tie and readily applied to another.

The fastener having been applied to the back of the tie, as shown, inorder to utilize the same and secure the tie to the button of the collarof the wearer it is simply necessary to press the entrance 5 against theshank of the button, which will spring the two terminals apart, so as toenlarge the entrance 5 to the button-embracing eye 3. The eye is thenintroduced over the shank of the button and the terminals released, sothat the shank is snugly embraced and the tie held in position. Thelateral divergence from the vertical of the terminals 4 and theirguarded hooks 6 permits of the introduction of said latter hooks underthe collar of the wearer at each side of the button, and as a result thetie is prevented from downward and lateral displacement by the buttonand the engaging eye and from upward displacement bythe engaging hooks6, in connection with the collar.

It will be obvious that the fastener I have shown may be made of asingle piece of light spring-wire, the same being given but a minimumnumber of turns or bends, and. therefore capable of being manufacturedat an eX- ceedingly slight cost.

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I-Iaving described my invention, what I claim is- 1. Theherein-described improved neektiefastener, the same being formed of asingle piece of spring-wire and comprising at its npper end anattaching-loop, below which is formed a button-embracing eye, and belowthe eye divergent terminals abruptly ending in hooks adapted to engagethe lower edge of the collar at opposite sides of the button or stud,substantially as specified.

2. The herein-described improved neektiefastener, the same being formedof a single piece of spring-wire bent at opposite sides of its center toform the central triangular loop,

1, comprising the upper horizontal cross-bar 2, and below said loophaving its terminals crossed and curved in reverse directions to formthe button-embraein g eye,`3,below which said terminals are diverged, asat 4, and laterally offset in rear of the plane of the loop and eye, andfinally terminating in the rounded oiset hooks, 6, adapted to engage thelower edge of a collar, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

BUCKLEY H. HOLMES. Witnesses:

L. A. LARSEN, FRANK HICKS.

